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UNITED STATES PATENT @Erica DANIEL CURRAN, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

CANDLE-EXTINGUISHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 515,575, dated February2'?, 1894.

Application filed May 3, 1893. Serial No. 472,869. (No model.)

.To ai? whom. et may concern.-

Be 1t known that I, DANIEL CURRAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of classthat are used to extinguish candles that are placed toohigh to bereached by the person extinguishing them and is particularly adapted tobe used in extinguishing candles as placed on church altare, andparticularly as they are placed during the ceremonies of the CatholicChurch, and consists in the oonstruction andcombination of parts setforth in the following specification and pointed out in the claims.

The object of my invention is to provide a candle extinguisher that.will enable the person using it to extinguish the candles placed high onthe altar, quickly, and without pressing down the candle wicks orcausing the tallow, wax or other material of which the candle iscomposed, to run down the candle sticks and drip on the altar cloths andornaments. I attain this object by means of the device illustrated inthe accompanying drawings in which similar letters of referencedesignate similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure l, is a perspective view of the entire device with a part of thehandle broken away. Fig. 2, is a sectional view of a handle and portionof tubes showing a modification in the manner of attaching the flexibletube. Fig. 3, is a cross sectional view taken on the line a c: of Fig.2. Fig. fi, is a perspective view of the funnel-like airoutlet showingits shape.

The handle A, is preferably of wood and provided with an opening a, intowhich is tted the lower end of the metal tube B, as shown in Fig. l.From the tube B, at a point a short distance above the handle A, a shorttube h, projects downward at an acute angle.

Y The tube C, is formed of rubber or other ilexible material and isattached at one end to the short tube b, and is provided at the otherend with a mouthpiece d. The tube B, which may be of any desired lengthis provided at its upper end with a removable elbow D. The elbow D, hasa straight piece of tubing B" formed integral therewith. The funnel likeair outlet E, is provided with the elbow D the free end of which isadapted to slip over the free end of the tube B. The air outlet E, isquandrangular in shape, as shown in Fig. 4, for the purpose ofconcentrating and producing an equal current or draft of air on theflame, it being found by tests that a conical shaped air outlet tends tospread the current or draft of air to such an extent as to render itinoperative.

In operation, the mouthpiece d, is placed in the mouth of the personoperating the extinguisher, leaving both hands free to grasp the handleA, the air outlet E, is placed in position directly overthe iiame to beextinguished, when a puff of air blown through the tubes C and B, willextinguish the dame. The object in having the current of air come fromabove the flame, is to prevent the sparks from the wicks being blownaside, as would be the case were the current of air projected from oneside.

A modification of the manner of attaching the flexible tube C, to themetal tube B, is shown in Fig. 2. f

The handle A, has the opening u., as shown in Fig. l, and the bottom ofsaid opening is connected with the groove e, by an inclined opening j'.The flexible tube C, is attached to the lower end of the metal tube B,when the tube B is placed in the opening a., the iiexible tube C,passesout through the inclined opening f. The object of the groove e, is thatthe exible tube C may lie therein, when not in use as an extinguisher,as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. The elasticity of theflexible tube is sufficient to hold it in position in the groove.

Fig. 3, shows the position of the groove c, in the handle A. It will beseen that the quadrangular air outlet E, is movable on the free end ofthe tube B which enables the operator to place the air outlet E, in suchrelative position to the tube B, that the jet ofair is projected from apoint directly over the flame without regard to the 'angle at which thetube B is held. It is obvious the distance and elevation of the flamefrom the IOC operator must determine the angle at which the tube Bisheld, and that, were the air outlet E, immovably fixed on the tube B,it would be impossible to project a current of air directly downwardwhen the tube B Was held at certain angles.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s

1. In acandle extinguisher, the handle A provided with the opening a,extending a short distance in the end thereof, and having the groove e,on theside thereof, connected with the opening a, by means of aninclinedopening f, said opening a, being adapted to receive the end of ametaltube and the inclined opening f, andgroove-e, being` adapted to receiveand hold a exible tube as shownand described.v

2. In a candle extinguisher, the handle A,

having the opening 0L, the inclined opening'

